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An old photo of a nurse and a patient. Office of War Information Photograph

GALBRAITH, W., MRS - Public domain portrait photograph

A group of people standing around a table. Office of War Information Photograph

Portrait photograph of Miss S.M. Willis, C.M.Bell Studio

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Hall receives first aid at aluminum plant where he works

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Nurse training. Nurses as well as teachers are needed in the hospital schoolroom where convalescing youngsters keep up with their school work

A group of people standing around a table. Office of War Information Photograph

Nurse training. "Occupational therapy" for the very young. Convalescence in children, as in adults, is hastened by the encouragement of interest in normal activities. Thus, a nurse's duties in a children's hospital takes on many of the aspects of the nursery school teacher or playground director, as youngsters improve in health

A nurse is feeding a baby in a crib. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a classroom full of students. Office of War Information Photograph

A nurse holding a baby in her arms. Office of War Information Photograph

Nurse training. Care of infants is part of every student nurse's training

Nurse training. Young nurses assist at an appendectomy. This is part of the training with which every student nurse must be thoroughly conversant before she completes her training. With enough students to do this type of hospital work, graduate nurses can be released for duty with the armed forces

Nurse training. Student nurses spend a great deal of time in classrooms, as well as in practice in the wards. Many of the students entering schools of nursing today hope to serve in the Army or the Navy Nurse Corps if the war continues until they graduate; but they realize that they are giving war service as soon as their practice work begins, because they help to release graduate nurses to join the armed services

Nurse training. Nurses as well as teachers are needed in the hospital schoolroom where convalescing youngsters keep up with their school work

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01/01/1942
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Henle, Fritz, 1909-1993, photographer
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Graduate register nurse, above, receives instruction in technique of anesthesia from doctor. There is a great demand for more well qualified anesthetists at present

"We have it rich." Washing and panning gold, Rockerville, Dak. Old timers, Spriggs, Lamb and Dillon at work

Civilian protection. An emergency unit gives first aid in the field and examines the victim of a fallen bomb. After treatment, he will be quickly evacuated to the nearest hospital or bandaged and turned over to an emergency housing unit. The "M.D." next to the caduceus on the doctor's armband indicated that he is a registered physician

Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. Cairns General Hospital, FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Resident doctor and nurse attending a patient

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

High point in the student nurse's career is the meaningful "capping" ceremony which takes place after students have completed the preliminary portion of their training. Here, Frances Bullock, nineteen-year-old student nurse, receives her cap

Washington, D.C. Eleanor Jefferis, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School, is a nurses' aide at emergency hospital. During the summer, she put in an eight hour day, six days a week, and while school is in session, she works on weekends

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Florence Nightingale at the Therapia Hospital "I was sick, and ye visited me"

Lithuanian chapter of Red Cross. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Levee worker during the flood, on a raw day with a thirty-mile wind. These men are very cold and almost exhausted from constant work

The state nurses. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon Print

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